Sunday, July 31, 2016

We’ve just spend 7+ years living under a president (perhaps yours, not mine) who has increased the power of the Chief Executive and the agencies which report to him by leaps and bounds. Obama has used whatever power he could take, legally or not, constitutionally or not, whenever he wants. The rule making emanating from the White House and federal agencies has been breathtaking. But, now, this is suddenly a problem. From the hoity-toity halls of the Washington Post, can you guess why? The headline says it all

QOTD: "I do not recognize the term "Islamophobe" and do not know what it means except, in the immortal phrase of Andrew Cummins as a word "created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons."" --Daniel Pipes

Islamists pose a particular security risk to our U.S. government. They want to slowly introduce Sharia law into our system of government and take away our most cherished freedoms. Islamists such as Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) not only strive to take away our fundamental freedoms, but they oftentimes also lobby against our government’s ability to crackdown on Islamic terrorism.

For example, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates wrote a letter in 2011 to the U.S. Department of Justice telling it the FBI needs to purge “highly offensive counterterrorism training materials about Muslims and Islam used to train its agents and law enforcement.”

Some Islamists, even after empowering radical Islam in the policy arena, will go so far as to support terrorist groups like Hamas (more often done privately) or receive funding from such groups. Islamists operate so effectively in U.S. politics because of politicians that enable them. Bill and Hillary Clinton are those type of politicians – having a political past mired with Islamist ties.

...Mrs. Clinton’s nomination — bringing women, barred first by law and then by custom, to the pinnacle of American politics — is to be celebrated as inspiration for young Americans, and as hope for women in nations and cultures that deny them the most basic opportunities. It is further proof that opening doors to women elevates and strengthens our nation.

Well, now, that’s interesting, because she has virtually no positive accomplishments over her time as a public figure. Quick, name one. Getting a bill renaming a federal center in NYC really doesn’t count much, does it? Let’s be honest: Hillary has ridden Bill’s coattails since he became governor of Arkansas. Call that sexist, call it misogynistic, the truth hurts. She was pathetic as a reverse carpet bagger senator, and was worse as Secretary of State.

QOTD: "Have you ever wondered what it might look like if a cult that enabled death and destruction and chaos and anarchy had its own national convention? I have.

...If there were such a convention, perhaps we could expect to see flags representative of regimes that soaked themselves in the blood of their own citizens and their enemies. Maybe some nice Soviet flags, or Communist Chinese flags, or some Palestinian flags. What a pretty spectacle that would be at a convention of supposedly American citizens who left American ideals behind decades ago in pursuit of domination, increasingly by any means necessary...

...Such a convention might prominently feature those who have not only broken the law, but are immensely proud of their lawlessness and how they have gained from it, along with their friends. After all, what good is massive corruption if you can't share it with those you wish to keep from stabbing you in the back?" --Jeffrey T. Brown

Friday, July 29, 2016

In the aftermath of the Bataclan theatre massacre in 2015, President Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS. In the aftermath of the Islamic carnage in Nice, Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS. In the aftermath of the Islamic attack on the church at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray and the beheading of Father Jacques Hamel, President Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS.

As an aside, I've been listening to bits and pieces of the Democrat convention and have yet to hear a single true statement uttered. They're gonna protect our borders (right), destroy ISIS (sure), fix the economy (mmm hmmm), and serve as squeaky clean public servants (rimshot, please).

Everything these leftist kooks say is a lie --- and that includes the words and, the and or.

SUMMARY: Documents Reveal Top Washington IRS Officials Knew About Targeting of “Tea Party” Groups Two Years Before Disclosing it to Congress and Public ... FBI interview with IRS senior official reveals: “he thought the cases were being pulled based upon political affiliations”

Judicial Watch today released 294 pages of new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “302” documents revealing that top Washington IRS officials, including Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency was specifically targeting “Tea Party” and other conservative organizations two full years before disclosing it to Congress and the public. An FBI 302 document contains detailed narratives of FBI agent investigations. The Obama Justice Department and FBI investigations into the Obama IRS scandal resulted in no criminal charges.

At the DNC, Michelle Obama put on her victimhood hat one more time and declared, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.” It’s not a new line, but an ongoing mantra. Back in 2009, Michelle whined that, “Many slaves who couldn’t enter the building worked to create the building.”

But that’s too past tense. Michelle’s house continues to be built and maintained by slaves. Her lavish lifestyle of endless vacations, parties and public appearances is funded by millions and millions of slaves.

Michelle Obama lives a life that is more lavish and luxurious than that of the average plantation owner.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

During his primetime address, former President Bill Clinton looked back on his life with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, highlighting moments that he judged significant.Yet Clinton’s speech was subject to withering criticism from the left, with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow calling Clinton’s speech “shocking and weird.” Significantly, as the former President went through the years, reporters started noticing significant moments were curiously missing. People following along with the speech on Twitter, saw a much more accurate reflection of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s political careers, filled with political scandals.

See below for the moments Bill Clinton did not want you to hear about:

By Brian RogersThis week, Philadelphia is welcoming a very different Democratic Party from the last time a Clinton was on the ballot for president.

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton declared "the era of big government is over," just as Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell's tax cuts and reform agenda were helping revitalize the City of Brotherly Love.

But Democrats gathering in the home of Ben Franklin have shifted sharply left on fundamental issues in recent years.

With the meteoric rise of avowed socialist Bernie Sanders and his liberal ally Elizabeth Warren - who both spoke in prime time to open the convention Monday night - this week will show that this is no longer the party of Bill Clinton and Ed Rendell.

Capitalism and federalism are two of the greatest models of human behavior you can imagine. Why?

Attorney, author, and radio host Mark R. Levin

Capitalism has created a magnificent lifestyle. We can’t exactly explain it, which means it’s open to demagoguery – the rich and the poor, the elite versus the common man. And you here it on the left and the pseudo-right. But that’s not what capitalism is about.

And federalism – mobility, different things for different people in different states, decentralization of decision-making, individuals deciding what they want to produce (if they want to produce anything), where they want to work, how they want to work, whether they want to create a small business, work for a company, or whatever.

Federalism – people deciding if they want to live in a state that has the death penalty, or, in the past, that has same-sex marriage or doesn’t have same-sex marriage, or has low taxes, has high taxes, whatever it is.

These two things alone are unique in human history. Free market capitalism, tried almost nowhere, creating the wealthiest society on the face of the earth, despite our diversity, despite our backgrounds, despite who we are.

People coming to these shores a few years ago becoming wealthy if they choose to. It’s not handed to anybody. Maybe you’ll fail twenty-five times before you’re successful. That’s fine, because the other twenty-five times, no one wanted what you were doing.

QOTD: "ST.-ÉTIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France — Attendance was sparse at the 9 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at the Église St.-Étienne, a 17th-century church in a working-class town in Normandy. Many regular parishioners were on vacation; so was the parish priest.

Mass was ending around 9:30 a.m. when two young men with knives burst in. They forced the auxiliary priest, the Rev. Jacques Hamel, 85, to kneel. When he resisted, they slit his throat. They held several worshipers and at least one nun hostage, while another nun escaped. Officers from a specialized police unit descended on the church. A short while later, officersshot the young men dead when they emerged from the church.

The brutality in St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen in northern France, was the latest in a series of assaults that have left Europe stunned, fearful and angry. President François Hollande raced to the town and blamed the Islamic State for the attack; soon after, the terrorist group claimed responsibility, calling the attackers its “soldiers.”

It was the fourth attack linked to the Islamic State in Western Europe in less than two weeks, after a Bastille Day rampage in Nice that killed 84 people; an ax and knife attack on a train in Würzburg, Germany, that injured five people; and a suicide bombing at a wine bar in Ansbach, Germany." --ADAM NOSSITER and BENOÎT MORENNE

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

27 words.

In the USA, these are 27 of the most important words ever written. 27 words that insure the ability of an armed rebel force to fight for Freedom against those who would attempt to enslave us. 27 words that whisper menacingly…” we will not go gently into that good night”. 27 words that separate us from every other Nation on this planet we call home. 27 words that protect the other 7591 words in the Constitution and Bill of Rights of these United States of America. 27 words that men and women of this great Country are ready, willing and able to live for, to fight for and to die for.

Hillary Clinton can try to run and hide from the radical ideas proposed in the democrat Platform, but her policies proposals confirm her full embrace of the “The Sanders Manifesto,” which declares war on small business and threatens millions jobs across the country.

Last night, in an interview with CBS’s Charlie Rose, Clinton ridiculously claimed that her policies and the policies of her Party had not shifted to the left, even though Socialist Bernie Sanders called the democrat Platform “the most progressive platform ever.” Clinton’s laughable argument that the democrat Party is the party of the “center-left” couldn’t be more untrue:

It is the consolidation of power that engenders corruption, but it is indifference that sustains it.

Up until recently, our permanent, professional political class was largely content spending their entire careers living off of taxpayer revenues, while, at the same time, finding new ways of squandering our hard-earned cash on projects and services meant more to ensure their reelection than providing any tangible benefits to their constituents.

Concomitantly, they expanded the reach of the federal government, further limiting our liberty with laws designed to consolidate their power and justify their useless existence.

To the Democratic National Committee elites, keeping average Americans away from their convention is a good idea, while protecting the southern border from intruding terrorists, rapists and murderers is a bad one.

The DNC has erected a four-mile fence around its convention site at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. (Isn’t it ironic they’re doing so much to protect a site named after a bank?)

Asked if she felt threatened by the Republican National Convention crowd’s repeated chants to “lock her up,” Hillary Clinton said the refrain instead left her feeling pretty down.

“It felt very sad, Scott,” Clinton told CBS' “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley on Sunday. “I mean—I don't know what their convention was about, other than criticizing me. I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had.”

QOTD: "AT LEAST one person has been killed following a suspected suicide bomb attack at a wine bar in Germany.

Police say up to 11 other people were injured in the blast in Ansbach, near Nuremberg, while the city’s mayor Carda Seidel said the inferno was caused by an explosive device.

...The nearby Ansbach Open Music Festival has been cancelled as a result of the blast.

Unconfirmed reports claim a man with a rucksack was denied entry to the festival shortly before the explosion ripped through the popular night spot, which is just three miles away from a US military base." --Patrick Christys

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Friday night announcement of Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice-presidential running mate stirred immediate disappointment and outrage among the progressive wing of her party and the army of supporters inspired by Bernie Sanders' historic and visionary campaign.

QOTD: "[Media] content is so rigidly controlled today that in a way the fourth estate has now become nothing more than an institution of the government restricted to publishing and advancing White House directives and Democrat policy agendas. The role that the press plays is to make clear to the American people what the Obama adminstration is doing, why the adminstration is doing it, and why it is forced to act in a certain way. Of course, as we have become accustom to hearing, the Obama adminstration is always forced to “act in a certain way” because of the “obstructionist” Republicans. The effect of this is to demonize the Republican party to the point of capitulation. This formula for “reporting” by the press encompasses every single issue advocated by the Obama adminstration and the Democrat party...

...with the media pushing the Democrats agenda and carrying weight for the Obama adminstration on not only gun control but issues ranging from Illegal immigration to Islamic terrorism, it is worth recalling the following statement delivered by Joseph Goebbels during his first official press conference as the head of the Third Reich’s Propaganda Ministry on March 15, 1933. Goebbels, whom turned press conferences into secret meetings where the Propaganda Ministry would pass on detailed instructions to selected journalists, supplying articles to be printed verbatim or used as the basis for reports stated the following to the journalists, “You are to know not only what is happening, but also the government’s view of it and how you can convey that to the people most effectively.” That they were not to convey or print any view in opposition to the regime did not need to be said. This applies to our own press today." --Politically Short